The only viable exports are weapons (since China is taking over the airliner bijnez) and toilet paper. No market in India for the latter. OTOH, Trump believes that India exports only ppl.
The problem may be that Trump does not understand how importing software engineers is the only way to develop exportable next-gen products using robotics, AI, blockchain (whatever that is)/ IoT etc. Software systems today are monstrously large and require large, well-organized teams who can keep working long hours because they have the IPL/ICC feed on the other screen and BRF krikit thread to inspire them. The software has to be very highly reliable. They cannot be done by typical 1980s beerbelly sitting unwashed in a basement and writing hard-coded spaghetti junk.
And Indian IT companies, AFAIK, have not really shown much interest in moving into the high end of such software development, sticking to financial services etc (not that financial doesn't hold massive profit margin, mind u..). The tech programming I believe needs nerd engg. knawlidj.
You still can't buy a Max Power Point Tracking Controller for PV systems, made in India - as one example. For robotic manufacturing Brish1tstanis are selling their yesterdin's "turnkey" (meaning blackboxes for dumbos) systems at outrageously inflated prices to clueless desis. Those could be developed much better in India by the same DOOs who probably developed those in Brish1tstan.
OK, don't kill me for 'off-da-cuff comment',
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